1 minute National Secretary-General of the ANC Women’s League, Nokuthula Nqaba says GBV should be declared as a national disaster. Speaking during a Women’s League march in Cape Town, Nqaba said gender-based violence and femicide is a pandemic and nothing is being done in terms of an action plan. “What then stops government to declare…
[File photo] City of Tshwane Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya. 1 minute The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality has told residents to brace themselves for new tariff hikes which will be implemented soon. This as the city struggles to increase its revenue collection. Briefing the media in Pretoria yesterday, Tshwane Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya said: “Alongside our…
NA Speaker Thoko Didiza 2 minutes Several political parties have requested National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza to withdraw the Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals report of the Standing Committee on Finance. The report was adopted by the majority of members in the committee last night. It was adopted with recommendations by ActionSA, that Treasury must…
1 minute Court proceedings in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping and human trafficking trial continue in the Western Cape High Court sitting at Saldanha Bay on the Cape West Coast on Thursday. Questions have arisen as to whether Ayanda Letoni would be called as a witness in the kidnapping and human trafficking trial of Joshlin Smith….
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana addresses the National Assembly Plenary Sitting for consideration of the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals at Parliament, Cape Town on April 2, 2025. 1 minute Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has questioned the decision of some Government of National Unity (GNU) members to vote against the 2025 budget, whose implementation they…
Former Vhavenda King, Prince Toni Mphephu Ramabulana testifies in the Polokwane High Court in Limpopo on April 3, 2025. 1 minute Princess Masindi Mphephu’s lawyer Allan Dodson will start cross-examining former Vhavenda king, Prince Toni Mphephu Ramabulana, when the High Court in Polokwane, Limpopo continues to hear the case of the battle for the throne…
The National Prosecuting Authority Head Office in Pretoria. 1 minute Gender activist Lisa Vetten has described the acquittal of televangelist Timothy Omotoso and two others as a complete humiliation for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). The high court in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape acquitted Omotoso, Lusanda Sulani and Zukiswa Sitho yesterday after finding them…
[File Image]: Mourners react next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, in the northern Gaza. 5 minutes Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza on Wednesday, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to its security zones, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population….
GNU cabinet meeting 1 minute The Democratic Alliance (DA) Federal Executive says it will meet later today, to make a decision on it’s future in the Government of National Unity (GNU). The party expressed its unhappiness following the adoption of the Fiscal Framework report by the Standing Committee on Finance last night. The ANC, IFP,…
